374 ANIMAL FOOD RESOURCES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



Mediterranean, appear to have been famous lands for 

 honey. 



Among the delectables with which Arsinoe nourishes 

 Adonis are " honey cakes " and other titbits made of 

 " sweet honey." In the country of Theocritus this 

 custom is said still to prevail. When a couple are 

 married the attendants place honey in their mouths, by 

 which they would symbolize the hope that their love 

 may be as sweet to their tiouls as honey is to the palate. 

 Every Eastern traveller can tell how the Arab dips his 

 fresh flour-cake into the mingled cup of honey, and 

 butter, and needs no better sustenance in crossing the 

 desert. St. John lived on locusts and wild honey in the 

 desert. 



According to the census returns the production of 

 honey in North America was in — 



lbs. 



1850 14,853,790 



1860 23,366,357 



1870 ...■ 14,702,815 



About thirty-five million pounds of honey are sold 

 annually in the United States at the present time, and 

 before long it is expected that it will sell at nearly the 

 price of raw sugar and be able to be substituted for 

 glucose or starch sugar in cooking, in confectionery, and 

 in brewing. It is stated, I know not with what truth, 

 that honey, which is used instead of sugar in the 

 Cyclades, causes scrofula. 



Like Galicia, Croatia and Slavonia are great honey 

 countries and send to market 1,680 tons annually. At 

 Segne there is a large honey refinery from which 28 tons 

 are sent out in the year.* 



There are a few other insect saccharine products 

 eaten, but they are not of sufficient importance to 

 require detailed description. Such are Lerp, a sweet 



* Those more especially interested in the subject of honey, I 

 may refer to a Innsr article of mine in the "Journal of .Applied 

 Science,' vol. 2, p. 84. 



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